We’re excited for you to join us at the 2025 TCDD Grantee Summit! This year’s event takes place on Zoom from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Central time on Friday, Oct. 10. At least one person from your organization must attend, but you are welcome to bring other members of your project team. Please have all attendees register before the event.
If you need accommodations to participate, email Cass Schnautz or call him at 737-710-2462 before Monday, Oct. 6. If you have any other questions, please contact your TCDD grant coordinator. We look forward to seeing you on Oct. 10!
All times are in Central time. You can also download a PDF version of the agenda.
8:30 AM to 9 AM – Welcome & Network Updates
Kick off the day with a warm welcome, an overview of what to expect from the Summit, and updates about ongoing projects and initiatives from across Texas.
9 AM to 9:45 AM – Defining & Sharing Your Impact
Join a guest speaker for a thought-provoking session on how to define, measure, and communicate the impact of your work. Learn strategies for storytelling, data collection, and framing your outcomes for different audiences.
9:45 AM to 10:30 AM – Breakout Session: Impact-Framing Work Groups
Connect with peers working on similar grant projects to explore impact and sustainability in small group sessions facilitated by TCDD staff. Collaborate to refine your messaging and identify long-term goals.
10:30 AM to 10:45 AM – 15-Minute Break
10:45 AM to 11:15 AM – Introducing New Resources
Discover new tools and materials to capture and communicate your impact. This session includes a resource overview, case study highlights, and a survey-question bank to support your evaluation efforts.
11:15 AM to Noon – Breakout Session: Regional Work Groups
Engage with peers working on grant projects in your region of Texas in facilitated discussions on collaboration and networking.
Noon to 12:15 PM – Compliance Corner
Get updates on key compliance topics, including deadlines, participant counts, leadership advocacy and satisfaction surveys, and maintaining grant signature authority. This session ensures you’re aligned with current expectations and best practices.
12:15 PM to 12:30 PM – Summit Wrap-Up
Close out the Summit with reflections and remarks from a guest speaker. Celebrate progress and look ahead to future opportunities for impact and engagement.
Our Grants Management team provides grantees with technical assistance to maintain compliance so grantees can focus on their goals to improve the lives of Texans with developmental disabilities. Knowing the many complexities of managing a federally funded grant, we’re excited to offer the annual Grantee Summit to help grantees manage their projects and engage with peers from across Texas. During this virtual event, grantees meet with TCDD staff, expert speakers, and each other to connect, collaborate, and advance their grant management skills.
For more grant management resources and training, visit our Grantee Resource Center, where you can download the TCDD Grants Manual as well as budget and program forms, find links to submit quarterly reports and surveys; view how-to videos on various grant-related topics; and more.
The Zoom recording includes all sessions of the 2024 Grantee Summit program except for the networking breakout groups, which were not recorded. To start at the beginning of a specific session, use the links in the following list (video will open in YouTube).
Sheryl Matney and Amy Deaville from the Information and Technical Assistance Center for Councils on Developmental Disabilities cover important things to think about when it comes to project sustainability and offer examples of ways to sustain projects after your grant funding ends. Please note that presentations for each session are the same, but discussions for each session vary.
Alicia Cone from the Tennessee Council on Developmental Disabilities discusses gathering and analyzing demographic data for your project, including how to define a project participant. Please note that presentations for each session are the same, but discussions for each session vary. No presentation slides were used for these sessions.
Lynn Beasley from the Texas Education Agency covers the role of a project manager and ways to improve project outcomes. Please note that presentations for each session are the same, but discussions for each session vary.
Jackie Hayes from the New York State Developmental Disabilities Planning Council provides practical strategies, tools, and tips to help engage diverse groups in your project. Please note that presentations for each session are the same, but discussions for each session vary.
Discover the training sessions and opportunities available from TCDD and review the 2022 updates to Grants Manual.
Have you ever needed a budget revision? Want to brainstorm about new sources for in-kind match? In this session, learn more about the financial aspects of managing your grant.
Gathering the data you need can be challenging. This session offers ideas on how to improve survey participation and creative solutions for gathering other needed metrics.
You’ve made an impact, now it’s time to show it off. Learn best practices to uncover, write, and share your participant stories to showcase the positive outcomes of your project.
Systems change is about addressing an issue and improving the way we support people with disabilities. Learn about the many ways you are already involved in systems change, strategies for expanding your impact, and how to track and report your systems change efforts.
